The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how ...

Most of our experience with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has focused on capturing radio signals that alien species have sent out, whether intentionally or unintentionally. That ...

Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet orbiting the nearest star system to our own. A mysterious signal appears on ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that signal has normally been based on our own current cutting-edge technology. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advanced extraterrestrial civilization may be drawing power from the energy of the black hole. ©Image Credit: Unsplash / NASA ...

Scientists have issued a new blueprint for the day Earth receives a message from an alien civilization. Released Friday, the eight-point plan lays out how researchers should handle a potentially world ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper. Reading time 3 minutes In our search for life beyond Earth, we might ...

It would probably not be the first question we asked, and it would not be the most urgent. But it could be one of the most revealing. Did another intelligent species develop ideas about gods, souls, ...